Noble Row

That's my bad, I had a poor understanding of the aging system and was having difficulty making comparisons so lets age them up some 20 years? BUT I also do like the idea of them being more of a workaholic and an unintentional recluse due to such nature. I would say they keep a small group of friends, mostly colleagues that they compete with so they seem them often enough, but otherwise are consumed by the competition and research like you suggest, which delves them more into being more of a recluse-like character. That's just the thing! This demonstrates my point perfectly. Kall-api has no interest in AI and the point of their research into the chassis itself is for a skrell to be able to remote pilot a body into things such as hazardous environments, so there is no need to put a skrell directly into harm's way. The suspicion that it might involve AI due to the nature of studying the empty chassis is where the rumors abound. But there is no AI, they are just being harmed by association with the chassis that is being studied. 1. They are a Xiiori Skrell as it helps diversify the character through references to a mixed house/cultures and additionally would play to add more metaphor to the character as they are a little odd. 2. Kall-api is a little unsure about welcoming the corporations even more into Federation, thinking that the corporations are a little backwards compared to the Federation. They've chosen to view the exchange as the Federation pitying the Republic of Biesel, especially in the light of Biesel's invasion from the Solarian Alliance, and the TCFL's failures during the Peacekeeper mandate. Otherwise they hold out hope that Jrugl and the Council know what they are doing, and this grand scheme would help increase the Federation's benevolent influence across the spur proper. 3. I find this question a little odd, because as far as I can tell psionics are to skrell like breathing is to any living being. You're born with it, your community is engrossed with it, it is part of the very foundations of your life unless you're particularly unfortunate. I'd say Kall-api has a healthy relationship with their psionics, and despite their Axiori heritage, they don't shine like a star psionically, but equally so aren't dim. I would consider them average, above average at the very best but not by a good margin. With their established reclusive nature they find themselves taking more comfort in the presence of the Nlom/Wake despite not actively participating it. Though they much enjoy engaging with the Srom more. The encouraged clear, concise, communication leads to excellent brainstorming sessions with the people Kall-api does interact with. Although their audience probably loathes some of their more eccentric ideas.

Honestly you can just make it where Consulars spawn with the gun and then give the gun to the bodyguard. Since the bodyguard is an optional slot, then giving the gun to them should also be optional, and typically if you're summoning a bodyguard to begin with, you're probably also down to give them the gun. Giving the gun to them in round, I mean. I feel like this is a good compromise. People who don't want a bodyguard get to keep their gun, and people who want a bodyguard can just give the gun to the bodyguard when the bodyguard shows up.

BYOND Ckey: Noble Row Discord username: Noble Row Character names: Eliza Trin Chimaera Kaiser L-1N3 Ichor 1-4 Faraday Ja'Hadem Penri Relizos Species you are applying to play: Skrell What color do you plan on making your first alien character?: Red with purple accents Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: A good bit of them but good god the amount of them... Why do you wish to play this species?: Small tiny cute squid/frog people who have such a grip on the spur that they have equal footing to humans is a bit funny. What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: Playing a Skrell lets you into a large and powerful culture of surveillance, conformity, and innovation, but this time incorporating psionics. Playing a Skrell means you get immersed in interacting with a culture who have existed for an incredible amount of time, seen their own apocalypse, and have developed technology unique to their physical and mental capabilities. It's a fun mix of things to interact with, and due to the trials and tribulations these small squid guys have gone through, they hold one of the more power positions in our setting. Character Application Character Name: Kall-api Suel’fune Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon. Growing up on Qerr'Malic on its capital city of Zuvl'Qlip, Kall-api was immersed in its engineering culture. Earning degrees in both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and thriving in the aspiration of scientific advancement, Kall-api grew their first 77 years enthralled in the mechanics of the world around them and saw themselves as the next big inventor. Tinkering with reactors, exosuits, engines, transportation, you name it, they've studied it, and wanted to apply their own twist to make their inventions really 'wow' their community! Unfortunately... Kall-api gets ahead of themselves. Most of their inventions were a success! It was just they were a success for niche audiences, or were only hazardously successful, meaning they had a pension for breaking down or detonating outright. Despite it all, however, they were still respected by their local government for their scientific achievement, even if their peers never considered them serious competition. Boasting a wonderful SCI score of 6.38, Kall-api prides their achievements for their country. Despite it all, they hold an overall positive outlook over the Federation at large, considering them the best hope this troubled section of the galaxy has to offer, even if they aren't perfect (this imperfection stems from a personal jaded stance that the Federation doesn't fully respect Kall-api's GENIUS inventions). Their SCI score would admittedly be larger if most of their inventions were more widespread in application, and didn't have the off-chance of detonating and harming a would-be evaluator to begin with. Additionally, due to Kall-api's penchant for curiosity, bad-faith rumors have spread among some jealous competitors implying that Kall-api has an undue interest in synthetics. Which, after any official investigation, would turn up as just that. Rumors. Kall-api has investigated robotics and IPCs alike, but it was purely for an understanding them on a chassis level, with hopes that maybe the chassis might be a good target for potential Srom-Device integration for remote Skrellian usage. Kall-api has a keen interest in expanding the application in the burgeoning technology of Srom-Devices anyhow, and is always actively seeking a new frontier to apply them in. Other pressure for their SCI score comes from a sense of wanderlust, but is actively combatted that that wanderlust for the stars beyond the federation comes from an inner sense of doing the spur good because only the Federation are the ones capable of doing so, having been accepted into the Work Initiative Programme in order to prove this very ideal to the spur at large. As for the aliens beyond and within the Federation themselves, Kall-api has a healthy curiosity. Within the Federation Kall-api is happy to work with the likes of Dionae, and finds the makeup of several smaller beings to makeup a whole being an apt metaphor of the Skrell's community as a whole, especially with the aspects of the psionic wake encompassing communities to help bond Skrell closer together. Inversely however, Kall'api sees Vaurca more indifferently, if not coldly. They feel that the Vaurca as a whole are a soulless version of the Skell, where very few individuals that have any sort of a soul control masses of husks, all under a greater will. Such an idea seems incredibly constrictive to Kall'api, and they certainly don't consider themselves living in similar circumstances in the wonderfully free-thinking Nralakk Federation. Though for the aliens beyond the Federation, Kall-api respects their ability to think, do science, and enjoy life, and loves learning about how each individual culture formed and practices. They just see each of them as a little bit.. underdeveloped. Pitiable. You can't be upset with someone just because they were born in the wrong place and didn't have the same luxuries you do, especially when you live in the best country in the Spur. A similar idea that they have for Skrell born outside of Federation space. You don't get to choose where you're born. But their parents though? Those who fled? ...Why would they do that? Crazy? Criminals? Kall-api prefers not to think about it. Otherwise, Kall-api is a casual follower of Qeblak, mainly for its scientific properties complimenting their inventive mind, and often contribute their abundant misfortunes to their own personal miscalculations of their cosmic mathematics. They make these calculations so often, and so incorrectly, they often do it for even small things, like if they would enjoy a meal. They see themselves to be a good follower in any event however, contributing this assumption to their continuous studying and striving for knowledge. Additionally, Kall-api was born a psionic receiver like much of the population, but had a brief rebellious stint in their youth where they fancied themselves "different" and "misunderstood" and claimed they were a Listener. This phase was short lived, however, and they fell back in line as they grew. How has the recent events of the Orion Spur impacted your character? With a rise in impending economic collapse comes a call for heroes to solve it! There's many issues and atrocities that plague the spur regularly, and with the rise and fall of Phoron being a life event in which many Skrell can view the entirety of, this is an even in which the most learned of us can brace for, overcome, and come out on top! Kall'api is using the sense of impending doom to be the light of hope for their peers, and more importantly, the spur, with the aim that this downturn would be the time to put the Federation back on top and make themselves a local hero. How does your character view the megacorporation they work for? Working for Hephaestus they hold an intense indifference towards the Corporation. Kall-api would be happy working for any corporation within the SCC, but this is where they were put, this is where they will be. They enjoy the background, enjoy the benefits, despise the uniform colors, but oh well, they let them tinker, and tinker they shall.

In all seriousness I personally don't like the idea of shoe-horning these mechanics in. I think some things could work, like a Changeling can take the form of an IPC, but it suddenly being metal or absorbing an IPC is kinda.. well.. stupid. It's metal. It's a robot. Robots being run on blood like a vampire is cool, but a vampire sucking the oil from an IPC is similarly stupid. Having psionic implements for IPCs would be cool though, and having psionics be able to interact with the advanceness of a positronic I think is a neat idea that can be interacted with and even built upon. But in my honest opinion, some of these things are way too far a stretch for already depreciated and arguably LRP in some cases gamemodes. Some of them are hard to take seriously as is.

Yeah PLEASE just have it start off. I turn it off almost the instant someone talks on it if I'm not apart of an expedition.

I worked with this guy making sprites for him for his BioAugments PR and the process was really smooth, concise and clear. His behavior in server and our community as well has been nothing less than stellar as far as I've seen. I think he'd do great on a team as a reputable and reliable individual! +1

My primary concerns with this application is that I just spent over a year trying my best to dig IPCs out of a pit to where almost every aspect of their lore had an overwhelmingly negative aspect to it and this application seems to want to undo the painstaking amount of work that was just put in to get IPCs a little closer to a decent balance of positives and negatives. It was at a point to where it was almost generally unfun to play an IPC due to the vehement negativity involved. If you go through their lore, most of the history of IPCs is filled with a large amount of aggressively hostile aspects both performed by IPCs and done to IPCs, that there is very little "Life" to them beyond a select few locations that are mostly human dominated. IPCs have some of, if not the worst oppression in the galaxy that I am beyond against adding more weight to that oppression without adding some joy to it. The modification of the Golden Deep is still in its infancy, as our lore moves in real time, but the modification was also a drastic change just to give some substance to IPCs having a chance at a decent life. The Golden Deep used to be generically evil Scrooge McDuck types that actively boasted about open slavery. The move was to make them more opportunist, research oriented, that gave IPCs a beacon of hope in a galaxy that actively belittles and despises them, giving the chance at a free life for all of those who make the pilgrimage to Pactolus. I also attempted to balance this by still instilling a reason to be afraid of IPCs. For instance, the fighter pilot featured in the Burzsian Truthfinder article was meant to be just an IPC. Not an Ace pilot. Not a decorated soldier. Just an IPC with the know-how to be a fighter pilot. I instilled several of these ideals through my time as Synth writer that IPCs shouldn't be oppressed because they're lesser than you, but they should be oppressed because they can kill you, quickly, and efficiently, with their own natural capability. You should be afraid of them because they're a threat, not because you think of them as a washing machine. So my question for you here is, do you have any plans of making any aspect of IPC life better? Or is it just more negatives in a bit of lore that is already mostly negatives?

Hello, I have a number of concerns regarding this application, but the chief among them is that I notice your forum account is new, and this is the only post. Do you have a Synth Whitelist to be applying to Synth Writer with? It's imperative you have a whitelist as it's an approval from staff that you know the basics of the species lore with a particular focus in aspects of the species that the staff team want to highlight.

Oldest IPC Record Shattered Mendell, Republic of Biesel, Surprising news today as a NanoTrasen IPC maintenance facility in Mendell reports a record breaker for oldest continuous Positronic functioning. During a requested maintenance check, positronic specialists found that Mr. Val Tezzani, formerly MAU-155, had turned 56 in the past month. Mr. Tezzani works as a mechanic in a NanoTrasen operated speeder vendor and attended this maintenance check after several of his coworkers were worried for his mental faculties. However, upon inspection, positronic specialists were astonished to find no sign of the telltale wear consistent with IPCs nearing the end of their life. IPCs have a typical life expectancy of 50 years, with rare occasions stretching out to 53 or even 55 years with good maintenance. Around this time, positronics are known to reach an ‘information overload’, where they assumedly run out of operable memory, with their core processes being overwritten with the intake of further data. This event causes the slow inevitable shutdown of a positronic, leading to what many equate to as death by old age. Alternatively, some positronics are known to enter a dormant state where they technically are alive, but it is assumed that an underlying directive of their Self-Preservation directive activates, in order to save the positronic from overwriting itself, rendering them inactive. Either way, the end is the same for most positronics. Specialists who examined Mr. Tezzani however note no observed overload in the postronic’s memory banks, making the statement: “It is as if he was just made-And we know he wasn’t, because his posi definitely dates at 56. No one just replaced Mr. Tezzani. It’s amazing! He’s like a brand new man for the old bloke he is!” When asking his coworkers about their initial suspicions and reason for reporting Mr. Tezzani, one Gabriel Jackson had the following to say: “Well. Val’s great, I’ve been working with him for years. Hell, he even came when I got my citizenship! But recently he was just slowing down, you know.. We knew he was old. Getting up there in the years. We saw it in his work that he was forgetting. Tripping over nothing. Falling over nothing. I watched him hold up both hands and stare at them like he was reminding himself what they were for.. It was just.. Sad you know? He stopped showing up for work for a few days so we sent in the notice. His wife, Marianna, didn’t want to talk about it. And then a-a couple days before the appointment he turns back up all right and chipper! It was a real miracle! Maybe Marianna got him blessed or something you know? She’s one of those Trinary types. I don’t really care, I’m just glad to have my bud back.” Mr. Tezzani declined a personal interview, but attributed his health to ‘regular maintenance and good puzzles’. Marianna Tezzani, Mr. Tezzani’s roommate, provided the following tear-filled message to BitByte: “He really had me scared there! But-But I knew through faith and dedication we’d make it through! I’m just so glad to have him back. I prayed and prayed and I just-.. I knew he’d be okay! There's just. I wish I could thank them... again and again.” The Mendell church of the Trinary Perfection made no comment, but wished Mr. and Ms. Tezzani well. A spokesperson from NanoTrasen made the offer to compensate Mr. Tezzani if he would like to undergo a study, quoting the ‘breakthroughs in positronic health’ that could be found, but Mr. Tezzani has so far refused. Mr. Tezzani is a self-owned Baseline IPC living in Mendell City, with no records of having ever been wiped. BitByte would also like to wish Mr. Tezzani a belated Happy Birthday. Further Reading: Spur: Echoes of Burzsia, where did the escaped IPCs go? Entertainment: New Movie ‘Escape From The Shell’ breaks the box office in Konyang Crime: IPC damage claims up 36% in Sol due to ‘street hoodlums’

Denied. Please adhere to the minimum length requirements stated in the species whitelist outline. Paragraphs are to be a minimum of 5 sentences however we highly encourage more to help demonstrate your understanding of our lore and the requirements we look for. Additionally, we STRONGLY suggest you utilize a different backstory. Tajarans did not employ IPCs during their civil war. The Phoron Scarcity is also an ongoing galactic event and not a single instance. Please also read more in depth into IPC lore and develop a more comprehensive understanding of our species, their motivations, and how they're not just a robot race.

Hello, The issue here is that the name Arlo is used by a security camera company. Artificial intelligences down to their core are essentially surveillance for the crew, especially since their only vision is through Cameras. It was determined by me that this name and its associations are much to on-the-nose to be in compliance with our server rules about references. If the Arlo company was any other brand, say, cooking appliances, then this would no issue at all. However, the name Arlo is, as mentioned, a surveillance brand, and since it is such, it is 1:1 with what an AI can be interpreted as and is treated as a reference, which is in violation of server rules. I did not make my decision without consulting my fellow staff members. I went to the relevant team, the AI Whitelist team, who handles AI's regulation in the server, and it was unanimously agreed by the AI whitelist team that this name was crossing the line and was inappropriate for an AI to have. Here on Aurora, we have bwoinked people for making reference names and requested them to change it, whether the reference was accidental or not. We have always had the player change the name in regards to references. It is S.O.P. This is just another case of that. Additionally, players can break the rules and go unnoticed, but this does not excuse the rule-break. It does not matter how long the player has been breaking the rules, whether intentional or not, amount of time of play does not excuse disregard for the rules established on the server. Even moreso, when a name is on the line of acceptability, the moderation team turned and consulted the relevant whitelist team, such as the species lore teams, or the AI whitelist team, for their approval of the name. In this case, the relevant whitelist team is the AI whitelist team, which was consulted, and again all agreed the name is an issue. The rule violated in question is as follows: When Googling Arlo, the surveillance company is the first search option you receive: Arlo is a very popular surveillance company for homes, businesses, and smart-homes, and holds a place in many American households and businesses. The company has been around for 11 years, predating the character, providing no excuse for the reference name. Now, the name might've been unintentional, however, it is still very much on the nose in reference to this company. If Arlo could open doors (which it might have smart-locks, I'm not personally a consumer), then it would be almost exactly what an AI can do down to the letter. It has been agreed upon by the team in charge of AI's, the AI whitelist team, that this name is too far, and is in violation of our server rules and the wishes of the relevant whitelist team, and the team would like it changed. Our rules may have been different in 2017, I didn't play here in 2017, but now they are what they are, and no one is exempt from them.

Article 5 of Trouble in Paradise Burzsia Attack Details Brought to Light It has been one week since the attack on Burzsia which has shocked the nations spur wide. Details surrounding the attack have been acquired by Truth Finder, though much remains a mystery. Starting as a brief recap, the planet of Burzsia was raided last week by an unknown, well-supplied force. The attackers launched a fighter assault which disabled the orbiting security fleet, which was experiencing severe malfunctions and caused the loss of their flagship vessel, and descended to the planet’s primary facility below. This attack saw significant damage internally due to a reactor malfunction, in addition to damage brought on by the attackers, and a synthetic uprising from Burzsia’s worker populace. Reports have come in from reliable sources providing details that were left out or omitted from primary news sources. Hephaestus Security was evidently aware of suspicious activity in the sector, with defense sensors filing several “concerning” reports about “blips” being picked up at the edge of the sector all the way to the planet’s defense perimeter. Hephaestus Security did dispatch scouts to investigate, but otherwise found no contact or cause for the disturbance, contributing it to a fault in their defense modules which were then placed under maintenance. Additionally, practitioners of the “Burzsian Method” on Burzsia I were reporting an uptick in units needing to be wiped for “dangerous” behavior for the past few months. Additional Machinists were being brought in to the planet to help with this growing need, and Director Rovet Overchal, reportedly working around the clock to enhance the Burzsian Method further. However, machinist reports seem to indicate that no change Director Overchal implemented seemed to stem the rise in Synthetic agitation for very long. Director Overchal is the only casualty from Burzsia’s leadership, having been found nailed to a chair in his office, comatose and foaming at the mouth. A report from doctors at Burzsia’s only untouched hospital report that Director Overchal is displaying only 10% brain activity, and is unexpected to recover without permanent systemic amnesia. Hephaestus Industries is reported to already be looking for a replacement. NanoTrasen and Hephaestus security analysts have verified several details from the attack, including that every member of the invading force, from the vehicles to the infantry, were wearing a strict uniform. The uniform was all black, with varying accents. Accent colors included Red, Blue, Purple, White and Gold, with one accent color per uniform. These accents seem to dictate squads or sections as evidenced by how some members bearing one accent were entirely organic personnel, while others were synthetic. The attacking force was a majority synthetic personnel, with around 30% being organic. It is unknown if the pilots of the aircraft that attacked the planet were of similar make, as no aircraft that was shot down remained in a salvageable state. However, videos viewed that featured the aircraft show maneuvers only able to be performed by highly augmented humans such as Galatea’s pilots, or synthetic personnel. A video was submitted directly to Truth Finder featuring the point of view of one of the attacking pilots. The video comes with a message, and Truth Finder takes this moment to remind its viewers that all videos submitted to Truth Finder are unedited, and whatever motif or message presented is not a reflection on the true and unbiased view that Truth Finder aims to deliver. All videos submitted in this article are joined with the warning that they contain sensitive material. Truth Finder’s security experts agree with the suspicion that the submitter of this video was of genetically altered or synthetic make, and displays similar piloting expertise to other pilots viewed from the attacking force. The interior of the aircraft additionally seems to be of custom design and features highly advanced components. However, Truth Finder security experts are to point out that this aircraft was obviously designed with traditional philosophy and does not capitalize on the use of a synthetic pilot, whereas an all-synthetic force, as evidenced by the Golden Deep’s Merchant Navy, have adapted to less-to-no organic life support luxuries. The use of a pressurized cockpit as opposed to a piloting container being chief among the evidence. NanoTrasen and Hephaestus security also point out in their reports the precision of the attack, with major events happening on a strict schedule with the exception of events perpetrated by Hephaestus’ counter actions. The initial detonation of key areas of the Burzsian facility were found to be triggered by strategic overloading of the Burzsian experimental planetary reactor, causing catastrophic power surges through the facility that resulted in detonation. Burzsian security and engineering teams that breached the reactor during the crisis noted that the entirety of the reactor’s staff were found dead and the reactor was set to self-detonate via a systemic cataclysmic meltdown. Hephaestus engineering teams suspect a complete meltdown of the experimental reactor could fracture the planet’s surface at the very worst. Guaranteeing destruction of the entire facility and surrounding mining colonies. A video was leaked from a Hephaestus mining safety harness featuring a clear view of one of the assailants. The individual featured in the video is determined to be an IPC of Industrial make or a heavily modified human. The indiscriminate targeting of both security and civilian personnel lead Truth Finder experts to believe that the attack was intentionally for shock and awe, with few groups in the Spur willing to operate in such a capacity. In terms of the surprise synthetic uprising, reports with substantial evidence have been far and few between. Hephaestus claims that there was a virus that infiltrated the synthetic units, but no substantial evidence corroborates this claim. However, several videos have been submitted to Truth Finder of the start of the attack. In all videos, the workers operated in their normal capacity until the first explosions ripped through the facility due to the overloaded reactor. Once the attack commenced, the IPCs of Burzsia were seen drawing weapons from hiding places, which then started the uprising. Truth Finder experts note that the synthetics on Burzsia did not operate on a timetable like the invaders did, and evidently did not know when the attack would occur, but did prepare for it. It is unknown whether the invaders expected the attack, or expected to rebel independently and took advantage of the attack. Many rebelling synthetics found smaller vessels and fled independently, whereas other synthetics joined forces with the invaders and followed them. Finally, while combing through the security footage, Truth Finder also found evidence of Orion Express’ continued operations during less than ideal conditions. It is unsure the true reasoning behind this visit from Orion Express, however Truth Finder cannot find any flight logs featuring this shuttle, its registration tag, or any scheduled visits to this hangar at all for the entire day. Personnel extracted from the facility were hard to identify due to facial obstruction and the camera’s poor quality, however two members were found to be machinist personnel working within the facility specializing in IPC maintenance and conditioning. Truth Finder will continue to monitor for more clarity into the situation as much still remains a mystery.